Research Catalog

Title

Language & grammar : studies in mathematical linguistics and natural language / edited by C. Casadio, P.J. Scott, R.A.G. Seely.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Center for the Study of Language and Information, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Casadio, C. (Claudia)
• Scott, Philip J.
• Seely, R. A. G. (Robert Andrew George), 1951-

Description

xxxi, 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

CSLI lecture notes ; no. 168

Alternative Title

Language and grammar

Subjects

• Computational linguistics
• Language and logic
• Lambda calculus
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories
• Categorial grammar
• Mathematical linguistics
• Categories (Mathematics)
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The categorial fine-structure of natural language / Johan van Benthem -- Excursions in natural logic / Edward Keenan -- Characterization of atomicity in Lambek calculus and bilinear logic / Mati Pentus -- Lambek calculus with nonlogical axioms / Wojciech Buszkowski -- On the expressive power of the Lambek calculus extended with a structural modality / Philippe de Groote -- The Lambek calculus with brackets / Mario Fadda and Glyn Morrill -- What are pregroups? / J. Lambek -- On subgroups of the Lambek pregroup / Michael Barr -- Pregroups and type-logical grammar : searching for convergence / Michael Moortgat and Richard T. Oehrle -- Categorial grammar for minimalism / Alain Lecomte -- On tree languages generated by categorial grammars / Maciej Kandulski -- Subject predicate order in classical Sanskrit / Brendan S. Gillon -- A computational approach to the noun in Burushaski / Daniele Bargelli -- Geometry of language and linguistic circuitry / Glyn Morrill.

ISBN

• 1575864878 (cloth cover : alk. paper)
• 1575864886 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005006327

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library